Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-16


amount turned ont short time ago. The
amount of charcoal used every day at present
Is $500 bushels, or just kiln. This con
|sumes an immense amount of wood
PrscArAouIs-
In Monson, according to the Slate, there is
y Swedish population of about LEO. Besides
khe single men who work in the quarriesl
khere are thirty-three families who hayeI
bones there. OF these families fourteen oil
kh.m reside on farms owned by them aEsI
several of the others are living in village cot
cages of which they are the owners.
They are to have good skating in Dover all
winter. The new water company there
agreed for S75 to keep portion of the riverI
n first-class condition throughout the season
The amour. was readily raised.
SA6ADAHoc.
The Bath committee ON FIRE department.
has reduced the force of Long Reach Com
aany to fourteen men, and voted to sell tive
pieces of apparatus. Il
SOMERSET.
CANAAS.---0ur correspondent writes Dee
Ia: At about four o'clock "Wednesday morn
ng Dec. IA, Warren Bunker who lives in 5!
remote part of South Canaan was awakened
~ an unusual noise in the bed chamber oc-
eupied BY his son Grin A. Banker who III
ibout 81 years of age. On getting up hel
found his son had got out door on the piaza
but he quickly retreated to his room and soorI
began to call for gun. His father, on open
ng the bedroom door, having Il lantern with
him, was confronted by his son holding d
knife or razor in his hand and about TO rush
Upon him but his father told him 10 stop
shereupon he jumped head foremost razor IND
hand through the window and headlong down
he plaza roof and down to the ground, fall oil
IL feet; then he sprang up and rushed into the
barn and climbing up onto the collar beam, be-
ng the highest beam in the barn.
to which hay fork with a long
rope with blocks was attached,
quick as thought he wound the rope round
his neck many times, detached the whole
from the beam, and jumped toward his father
who stood in the barn floor with the lantern
and struck in the floor a distance of all of %
feet near where his father Stood before the
boy could rally his father bound him with
cords, blood was flowing eopiously from a
fearful wound in his throat, he having slashed
It with the razor; the cut extends from the
back of his neck around on the right side to
the Adam apple so called. DIR. Shaw dis
covered no serious injuries other than the
cut and not dangerous, he had cut deep in
the muscular part of the neck but skinned
over the arteries. The boy had hit a few
lays ago and is violently insane.
The Reporter publishes list of Us per-
sons in Skowhegan who are 20 years of age
and over.
The Madison Wooden Co. are building ar
Office on their lot opposite the entrance to the
brick mill. The building is lSx3s feet and
will be divided into two rooms, one for the
bookkeeper and one for the superintendent
fine job of wiring is being done in CO.
burn Hall, Skowhegan, for the incandescent
lights, the entire auditorium to be lighted by
this system.
WALDO.
The selectmen of Montvile met at several
places in town for the purpose of letting the
breaking of the roads the present winter, in
accordance with vote taken at the last an
nual meeting. The roads were let in short
sections to the lowest bidders, for ii sum ag-
gregating about $1,000, which is considera-
bly, in excess of the average cost of winter
road-breaking. Petitions are being circulated
for a town meeting to take further action in
the matter.
1t is reported that parties from abroad have
Teen looking over the water power at Burn
ham village with view to locating there.
YORK.
Samuel Emery of Bidleford. was robbed
in Denver Col, of Sis and his watch. BY a
man who entered his room. Emery grappled
the man, who carried revolver, but the fell
low succeeded in making his escape.